Device for attaching pictures, &amp;c., to walls.



A. B. ALBBE.

DEVICE FOR ATTAOHING PICTURES, dam, T0 WALLS.

APPLICATION FILED M5123, 1908.

920,236. Patenfed ma 4, 1909.

Wit-messes Snoemtoz ARTHUR E. ALBEE, OF T ORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

DEVICE FOR ATTAGHING PICTURES, 850., T WALLS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

2atente'd May 4, 1909.

Application filed May 23, 1905. Serial No. 434,481.

- To all whom it may concern: 4

It is of course well understood that it isoften required-to display pictures and engravings, either temporarily or permanently, without framing them and that 'it is seriously objectionable to have the cards or sheets of photographs, engravings and other pictures perforated by tacks. Not only is the use of tacks which pierce a card or sheet objectionable on account of the unsightliness of the head of the tack but it is a still more serious objection that the cards and sheets are permanently injured and their value lessened by passing tacks through them. In order to overcome these objections and to provide means for attaching photographs, pictures and other light articles in place upon walls, I have devised the novel attaching device of which the following description in connection with the accompanying drawing is a specification, reference characters being.

used to indicate the several parts.

Figure 1 is an elevation of a card, as a photograph, represented as in place u on awall, the attaching devices being in( icated b dotted lines; Fig. 2 a rear view correspon ing therewith; Fig. 3 an enlarged detail view corresponding with Fig. 2 'Fig. 4 a section on the line 4-4 in F ig. 3; Fig. 5 an enlarged detail view illustrating a slightly variant form of my novel attaching device; and Fig. 6 is a section on the line (i-6 in Fig. 5.

My novel invention consists essentially of a sharp prong rovided with an enlarged I head of relative y stifl' paper or pasteboard which is provided on its outer face with adhesive material to adapt it for attachment, upon being moistened, to the back of a card, engraving or any light article.

made sharp so that it may be readily pressed into a wall or a board, and 11 a head which is made of a relatively stiff paper, pasteboard or other suitable inexpensive material. In practice the prong is provided at its inner end with a flattened enlargement indicated by 12. 'To this enlargement the head 11 is secured in any simple and inexpensive manner, it bein wholly immaterial so far as the principle 6 the invention is concerned whether the head is round or angular in configuration.

In Figs. 3 and 4 I have illustrated a form of the invention in which the head is formed from two or more pieces of pasteboard or relatively thick paperwhich are glued, cc-

niented or otherwise rigidly secured together. For convenience in illustration I have shown a head made from two pieces of pa )er or pasteboard which are indicated speci ically by 11 and 11 The prong is passed through the center of part 11 and then parts 11" and 11 are pressed and cemented or glued rigidly together with enlargement 12 between them.

In the form illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6,

the head 11 is formed from paper pulp or other suitable plastic material and is molded about enlargement 12. y

The essential feature of the invention is that no matter how the head is formed the face of the head is covered with adhesive material, indicated by 13, of a character that becomes adhesive by moistening.

The use of my novel attaching means will be obvious from the drawing. In order to hang an engravin photograph or any light object to a wall, t e adhesive material upon the faces of the heads may be first moistened and then attached to the back of theengraving, photograph or other article, and then the prongs may be forced into the wall or, if preferred, the prongs may be forced into the wall first, then the adhesive material on the outer faces of the heads moistened and then the engraving, photograph or other article pressed into contact'therewith. Any number of the attaching devices mayl be used as preferred. Ordinarlly two at t e 11 per corners, as illustrated in the drawing, Wi 1 be If) denotes the prong which is of metal and Q 2o,2a

amply suflieient fer photographs but for projecting from the other face inadirectieiilarger sized engravings or prints more may "pe endicular to the plane of the disk. 1 10 be used. n testimony whereof I afiix my signature,

- Having thus described my invention, I in presence of two'wit'nesses. v 5 claim: ARTHURL'EJ ALBEE.- An attaching device of. the character dee 'Witnesses: scribed, compnsing a flat disk having an ad- W. TASOHNER,

hesive face and .astraight sharpened preng EDWARD PEABODY. 

